Maryland: Meade Schedules TB Testing at School

From CDC National Prevention Information Network

May 29, 2003

In what Anne Arundel County, Md., health officials are
calling the largest TB testing the county has ever conducted,
about 1,800 students and teachers at Meade High School will be
tested for TB on Monday and Tuesday. The testing follows the
disclosure that a student was diagnosed with an active form of
the disease. After the student's diagnosis, 267 people who either
attended classes with or taught the student were tested. Of
these, 31 students and three teachers were found to have a latent
form of the disease, meaning they tested positive but are not
contagious. They were prescribed Isoniazid. The school's seniors
have already graduated and so will not be present for the
testing, but officials are urging them to get tested as well.

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